How to modulate a track send?

[Andrew Smith]

Hi New user, still learning.

I've got a track with MidiShaper modulating Pro-Q through a couple of CCs. I pressed ctrl+enter to bring up the commander and clicked something without knowing what it did! Now for some reason the MidiShaper/Pro-Q modulation has broken. Any idea how I've broken it?

^^ figured it out. I don't know what I did in the commander, but somehow I'd turned off the sends inside MidiShaper! Weird.

How do you modulate a track send? I'm using MidiShaper to generate a CC from an LFO, and I want to use the CC to control the track send amount. I know how to use the CC to modulate instruments/plugins but I don't know how to control the track send.

Thank you

[Andrew Smith]

I managed to do what I needed to do by creating an FX layer with one dry and one wet layer, putting a Tool at the beginning of the wet layer, and modulating the gain. I don't know if this is the best way or not, it seems like a lot of extra steps when you could just modulate the send to a return track. But for now it gets the job done.

[ere2learn]

Project level modulator

projectmod.gif

[Andrew Smith]

The project-level stuff is up-stream from MIDI generator devices on a track, so it's impossible to do project-level modulation with a MIDI generator device. Maybe I didn't do it right though, I'll try again...

[Andrew Smith]

Even with MidiShaper as the only device on a track, the project-level modulators don't receive the CC.

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[pdxindy]

The project-level stuff is up-stream from MIDI generator devices on a track, so it's impossible to do project-level modulation with a MIDI generator device. Maybe I didn't do it right though, I'll try again...

The Project level has its own track input. You can set it to receive from your plugin on a separate track, and then use a Midi Modulator to control a send.

[Andrew Smith]

The Project level has its own track input. You can set it to receive from your plugin on a separate track, and then use a Midi Modulator to control a send.

I'm not figuring this out at all. Any chance you could give me a step-by-step? I've only been using Bitwig for 2 days and I've figured out all the other routing stuff I need to do, but there's obviously something simple here that I'm not getting!

[pdxindy]

The Project level has its own track input. You can set it to receive from your plugin on a separate track, and then use a Midi Modulator to control a send.

I'm not figuring this out at all. Any chance you could give me a step-by-step? I've only been using Bitwig for 2 days and I've figured out all the other routing stuff I need to do, but there's obviously something simple here that I'm not getting!

My mistake... I just tried it and it doesn't work at the project level because it could create a feedback loop.

[Andrew Smith]

My mistake... I just tried it and it doesn't work at the project level because it could create a feedback loop.

No worries, thank for trying to help anyway

[c_bomb]

Just right click the send knob and select 'Add Automation Lane'? The lane will then appear in the arranger window and you can then modulate the send like any other automation.

[pdxindy]

My mistake... I just tried it and it doesn't work at the project level because it could create a feedback loop.

No worries, thank for trying to help anyway

Actually, it was again my error. It does work at the Project level, but the midi source needs to be set like the image below. Not the track i/o but under "Show Modulation Mappings by Source" (just under PB in the Inspector).

Project Modulator.png